Non-Platonism in

Texture NCA (Niklasson et al. 2021)

Non-Platonic texture generation in a neural cellular automaton. (download mp4)

target image (public domain), droplets from NASA Ames

Target image: micrograph of yellow vesicle/droplets, public domain from NASA Ames (source).

In my hands, it's actually pretty unusual to see total failure at smaller step size. See (Pajouheshgar et al. 2024) for another discussion of continuity in texture NCA.

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Texture NCA trained with different seeds

Seed 57. (download mp4)

Seed 41. (download mp4)

Seed 43. (download mp4)

Seed 47. (download mp4)

Ehsan Pajouheshgar, Yitao Xu, Sabine Süsstrunk; July 22–26, 2024. "NoiseNCA: Noisy Seed Improves Spatio-Temporal Continuity of Neural Cellular Automata." Proceedings of the ALIFE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference. ALIFE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference. Online. (pp. 57). ASME. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00785

Niklasson, et al., "Self-Organising Textures", Distill, 2021. https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/